Bar Admissions
New Hampshire Supreme Court
One Charles Doe Drive
Concord, NH 03301
603.271.2646
http://www.courts.state.nh.us/nhbar/index.htm
New Hampshire Bar Exam Format
The New Hampshire Bar Exam is a two-day exam. Day 1 consists of two 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) questions and six 30-minute Multistate Essay Exam (MEE) questions. Day 2 is the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), a 200-question, multiple-choice exam.
Multistate Edge prepares you for the MBE portion of the New Hampshire Bar Exam.
New Hampshire Bar Exam Subjects: New Hampshire/MEE Subjects (MBE Subjects are in bold)
Business Associations (Agency/Partnership, Corporations & LLCs), Commercial Paper, Conflict of Laws, Decedents’ Estates, Family Law, Federal Civil Procedure, Sales, Secured Transactions, Trusts & Future Interests, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts
MPRE
A scaled score of 79 on the MPRE is required for admission.
New Hampshire Bar Exam Scoring and Results
The MBE, MEE, and MPT scores are scaled and combined to determine if a passing score of 270 out of a possible 400 points was achieved. Results are released in late April for the February exam and in late September for the July exam.
Click here to see passage results for past New Hampshire Bar Exams.
New Hampshire Bar Exam MBE Reciprocity
New Hampshire accepts an MBE score from another jurisdiction, if taken in a concurrent exam.
New Hampshire Bar Exam Reciprocity
In order to be eligible for admission without taking the New Hampshire Bar Exam, the applicant must be a member of a state bar and admitted by bar exam, have engaged in the active practice of law for five of the seven years immediately preceding the application, be a graduate of an ABA-approved law school, and have achieved a satisfactory MPRE score prior to application. Special rules apply to Vermont and Maine attorneys who have passed the bar exam and practiced at least three years in those jurisdictions prior to application. (See Supreme Court Rule 42).
New Hampshire Bar Exam Application Deadlines and Fees
Please visit the Bar Admissions’ website for details on application deadlines and fees, and for more information on other topics.
*Bar exam information is subject to change without notice; please verify with the bar examiner’s office.
